Design for Lean Six Sigma
Design and launch a new process, product or service correctly the first time
When designing new products, services, software, Web portals, or anything else, it is crucial to achieve customer delight at the lowest cost and shortest time to market.
The Design for Lean Six Sigma set of approaches can dramatically improve new product and service success rates, reduce costly redesigns and software patches and eliminate service headaches after the launch.
This workshop will cover the entire set of standard Design for Lean Six Sigma approaches and show you how to apply them in your organization. As an added bonus, you will learn how the most innovative companies in the world generate breakthrough new product ideas at the “fuzzy front end” of the product and service development process. It is this combination of strategic innovation and Design for Lean Six Sigma that sets world-class companies apart from the rest.
Bring your new product, service, software or other new challenge to the workshop and apply the techniques right in the session. Leave with a roadmap on how to introduce Design for Lean Six Sigma into your business, and successfully facilitate your team through the process.
You’ll learn to:
- Utilize the benefits of Design for Lean Six Sigma
- Reduce development costs of new products,
services, software, etc. - Increase customer delight, revenue and profit
- Shorten development times and time-to-market
- Leverage your design resources by avoiding fire fighting
- Lower manufacturing, operating and service costs
- Lessen early-life failures and lower warranty costs
Who should attend:
- New product engineers or managers
- Quality managers
- Operations managers
- Business systems analysts
- Six Sigma practitioners
“Jim did an excellent job of using various learning techniques to drive home the theory and applications of Six Sigma.”
Jace Oliver, Georgia Department of Defense, Atlanta GA
The University of Wisconsin–Madison, as a member of the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), authorizes this course for 1.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or 14 hours, as well as 14 PDUs.
jcorkery@exed.wisc.edu